Friday, November 26, 2021

I finished up the last (I think) of my Christmas sewing this morning. I moved on to doing some cards until mid-afternoon.

We have two days of Guild sewing coming up tomorrow and Sunday; the focus is on Community Quilts (donations). I have a quilt cut out and I’ll sew at home rather than attend the event in person. Our Community Quilt days get more and different people out so it wouldn’t be like our Tuesday sewing.

I have a bin of donation quilts that need to be sandwiched and I want to get them in tomorrow morning so they will be ready for quilting by the end of the weekend. We have an awesome team of women who do the sandwiching. When I started digging them out of the bin I realized that they may not be entirely finished. The first two I pulled out to press had some appliqué stitching that still needed to be done.

I may not have time to get them all finished up this afternoon but I’ll keep at it so they are all ready for sandwiching tomorrow.

Thursday, November 25, 2021

We had a storm last night and the winds were probably stronger than they often are but it wasn’t the raging storm I expected. The first two ferries out of Comox were cancelled this morning, as were the first two from Texada. It has been windy and rainy all day today but we are getting used to that. Apparently the next one arrives Saturday, then another one on Tuesday and then we get a bit of a break.

I spent my morning getting my last 12-Days parcel ready for the mail and then getting my project ready for sewing this afternoon. Each box is getting more expensive to send; the “perfect-sized” box was only available for the first one. I’m shipping air but for this last one I was also able to include a birthday gift so that will save me some money later.

I had a good day of sewing. I finished the next clue for the Guild mystery. I didn’t think it would take me all afternoon to finish it so I looked ahead and have a start on the next clue. I’ll soon be ready to start putting it all together.

I have an online meeting tonight so I’d better get ready for it.

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

We watched the second season of The Tiger King last night. It isn’t as spell-binding as the first season but equally sleazy. All the original characters are back; the good news was that some of the exotic animals were taken away from a couple of the farms and the owners of those farms may be in as much trouble as the original Tiger King. I guess we’ll have to wait for another season to find out more.

I was up stitching until one o’clock this morning. I went to bed at my usual time and then got up about 11:30 as I hadn’t been able to fall asleep. After a bit of stitching I felt tired enough so went back to bed. That meant I slept in until almost nine and by the time I had finished the one task on my list for today (editing and posting the last Song Circle) the morning was half over.

I persevered and got another 12-Day box packaged up, along with wrapping a birthday gift and getting it ready for the mail. I had a library book to return and another one to pick up. It was almost noon by this time so Pat drove me and we picked up a pizza for lunch – 50% off!

I’ve been working on my Peppermint Purple SAL this afternoon. The individual blocks don’t take long but I’ve started adding to the border and that takes a bit longer.

We’re expecting another storm tonight – high winds and rain. It has been windy and rainy pretty much all day so it might be hard to tell when the real storm starts.

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

I dropped the first of my 12-Days packages at the Post Office this morning. I thought I was quite early in getting them away but the clerk asked right away if I was sending Christmas gifts. It wasn’t crowded first thing this morning but I noticed they are again limiting the number of people in at one time. I take that to mean they have already started having lineups.

I took three projects to the bee to work on and I almost got them finished – two out of the three are done and number three is half-way there. I would have stayed long enough to get them all finished but people were packing up and cleaning up so I packed it in too.

I was double-booked for Thursday night – a Guild demo and a Zoom meeting. I decided before leaving this morning that I would attend the Zoom meeting. I’ve been thinking a lot about the upcoming Christmas dinner and wondering whether or not it would be better to skip it. When I mentioned to the Program Committee head that I couldn’t make it on Thursday she immediately assumed I was talking about the dinner so I accepted that as a sign and I’ll stay home from both Guild events.

I picked up one more birthday gift after the bee. Tomorrow I’ll get another box ready and out in the mail.